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Pope, Top Shiite Cleric Plead For "Peace" In Historic Iraq Encounter
Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, one of Shiite Islam's top clerics, told Pope Francis in a historic meeting in Iraq on Saturday that the country's Christians should live in "peace".
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How The Pentagon Is Preparing For The Coming Drone Wars
More than a decade after the improvised explosive device became the scourge of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Pentagon is battling another relatively rudimentary device that threatens to wreak havoc on American troops: the drone.
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Iraqi Christians Hold Easter Celebrations At A Church Damaged By ISIS
Hundreds of Iraqi Christians gathered on Sunday in a church damaged by ISIS north of Mosul, celebrating Easter there for the first time since 2014.
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ISIS Turned Church In Iraq's Mosul Into Religious Police Base
The elegant columns of a west Mosul church stand plastered with ISIS propaganda after the terrorists' infamous religious police took over the Christian place of worship.
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In Charred Church Near Mosul, Iraqi Christians Pray Once More
Surrounded by charred walls and in front of a ruined altar, dozens of Iraqi Christians celebrated mass at the Church of the Immaculate Conception in Qaraqosh on Sunday for the first time since it was recaptured from ISIS.
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Iraq Storms Main Christian Town Near Mosul As Ash Carter Arrives In Baghdad
The Iraqi army on Saturday stormed a Christian town that had been under control of ISIS since 2014 as part of US-backed operations to clear the entrances to Mosul, the militants' last major city stronghold in Iraq.
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ISIS Has Committed Genocide In Iraq And Syria, Says John Kerry
The ISIS terrorist group has committed genocide against minority Christians and Yazidis as well as Shia Muslims, US Secretary of State John Kerry said on Thursday, a finding that is unlikely to greatly change US policy toward the group.
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John Kerry To Miss Deadline On ISIS Genocide Question
Secretary of State John Kerry will miss this week's congressional deadline for deciding whether atrocities by the ISIS against Christians and other minorities in Iraq and Syria should be designated genocide, the State Department said on Wednesday.
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Oldest Christian Monastery In Iraq Razed
Satellite photos obtained by The Associated Press confirm what church leaders and Middle East preservationists had feared: The oldest Christian monastery in Iraq has been reduced to a field of rubble, yet another victim of the ISIS's relentless destruction of heritage sites it considers heretical.
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What Christmas Looks Like In Baghdad This Year
In a bid to show solidarity with Iraq's embattled Christian minority, local authorities in Baghdad have put on an official Christmas celebration this year.
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'I Want a Blue-Eyed Yazidi': Teen Describes Islamic State Slave Market
Kidnapped, beaten, sold and raped: the Islamic State group is running an international market in Iraq where Christian and Yazidi women are sold as sexual slaves, a teenager who escaped told AFP Tuesday.
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Islamic State Urges Followers to Escalate Attacks in Ramadan
Islamic State urged its followers on Tuesday to escalate attacks against Christians, Shi'ites and Sunni Muslims fighting with a US-led coalition against the ultra-radical group.
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Islamic State Holding 50 Civilians After Raid on Syria Village: Monitor
Jihadist fighters from the Islamic State group are holding hostage at least 50 civilians seized in a raid on a village in central Syria, a monitor said.
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Pope Francis Condemns Indifference to Jihadist Atrocities Against Christians
Pope Francis condemned indifference and "complicit silence" to jihadist attacks on Christians as he presided over Easter ceremonies in the wake of a massacre of nearly 150 people at a Kenyan university by Shebab Islamists.
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Opinion: What ISIS Achieves With Its Images Of Destruction
The militants understand that assaults on art with Biblical associations are likely to generate a firestorm in countries with large Christian populations, and that is what they have achieved, says Phiroze Vasunia.
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Pope, Top Shiite Cleric Plead For "Peace" In Historic Iraq Encounter
Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, one of Shiite Islam's top clerics, told Pope Francis in a historic meeting in Iraq on Saturday that the country's Christians should live in "peace".
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How The Pentagon Is Preparing For The Coming Drone Wars
More than a decade after the improvised explosive device became the scourge of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Pentagon is battling another relatively rudimentary device that threatens to wreak havoc on American troops: the drone.
-
Iraqi Christians Hold Easter Celebrations At A Church Damaged By ISIS
Hundreds of Iraqi Christians gathered on Sunday in a church damaged by ISIS north of Mosul, celebrating Easter there for the first time since 2014.
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ISIS Turned Church In Iraq's Mosul Into Religious Police Base
The elegant columns of a west Mosul church stand plastered with ISIS propaganda after the terrorists' infamous religious police took over the Christian place of worship.
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In Charred Church Near Mosul, Iraqi Christians Pray Once More
Surrounded by charred walls and in front of a ruined altar, dozens of Iraqi Christians celebrated mass at the Church of the Immaculate Conception in Qaraqosh on Sunday for the first time since it was recaptured from ISIS.
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Iraq Storms Main Christian Town Near Mosul As Ash Carter Arrives In Baghdad
The Iraqi army on Saturday stormed a Christian town that had been under control of ISIS since 2014 as part of US-backed operations to clear the entrances to Mosul, the militants' last major city stronghold in Iraq.
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ISIS Has Committed Genocide In Iraq And Syria, Says John Kerry
The ISIS terrorist group has committed genocide against minority Christians and Yazidis as well as Shia Muslims, US Secretary of State John Kerry said on Thursday, a finding that is unlikely to greatly change US policy toward the group.
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John Kerry To Miss Deadline On ISIS Genocide Question
Secretary of State John Kerry will miss this week's congressional deadline for deciding whether atrocities by the ISIS against Christians and other minorities in Iraq and Syria should be designated genocide, the State Department said on Wednesday.
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Oldest Christian Monastery In Iraq Razed
Satellite photos obtained by The Associated Press confirm what church leaders and Middle East preservationists had feared: The oldest Christian monastery in Iraq has been reduced to a field of rubble, yet another victim of the ISIS's relentless destruction of heritage sites it considers heretical.
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What Christmas Looks Like In Baghdad This Year
In a bid to show solidarity with Iraq's embattled Christian minority, local authorities in Baghdad have put on an official Christmas celebration this year.
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'I Want a Blue-Eyed Yazidi': Teen Describes Islamic State Slave Market
Kidnapped, beaten, sold and raped: the Islamic State group is running an international market in Iraq where Christian and Yazidi women are sold as sexual slaves, a teenager who escaped told AFP Tuesday.
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Islamic State Urges Followers to Escalate Attacks in Ramadan
Islamic State urged its followers on Tuesday to escalate attacks against Christians, Shi'ites and Sunni Muslims fighting with a US-led coalition against the ultra-radical group.
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Islamic State Holding 50 Civilians After Raid on Syria Village: Monitor
Jihadist fighters from the Islamic State group are holding hostage at least 50 civilians seized in a raid on a village in central Syria, a monitor said.
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Pope Francis Condemns Indifference to Jihadist Atrocities Against Christians
Pope Francis condemned indifference and "complicit silence" to jihadist attacks on Christians as he presided over Easter ceremonies in the wake of a massacre of nearly 150 people at a Kenyan university by Shebab Islamists.
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Opinion: What ISIS Achieves With Its Images Of Destruction
The militants understand that assaults on art with Biblical associations are likely to generate a firestorm in countries with large Christian populations, and that is what they have achieved, says Phiroze Vasunia.
